Where there is no imagination there is no horror.-- ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Sr.'Tis now the very witching time of night / When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world.-- WILLIAM SHAKESPEAREPixie, kobold, elf, and sprite / All are on their rounds tonight / In the wan moon's silver ray / Thrives their helter-skelter play.-- JOEL BENTONA grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.-- ERMA BOMBECKFrom ghoulies and ghosties / And long-leggedy beasties /And things that go bump in the night / Good Lord, deliver us!-- SCOTTISH SAYINGThere are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.-- GEORGE CARLINOne need not be a chamber to be haunted / One need not be a house / The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.-- EMILY DICKINSONThere is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.-- JOSEPH CONRADA house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.-- J.M. BARRIE
On Hallowe'en the thing / you must do / Is pretend that nothing / can frighten you /
An' if somethin' scares you / and you want to run / Jus' let on like / it's Hallowe'en fun.-- 19th CENTURY POSTCARDAsk not what your pumpkin can do for you, ask what you can do for your pumpkin.-- AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Friday, October 31, 2008
Quotes From Around The Boo-osphere
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